Today Google Japan celebrates Coming of Age Day, a national holiday in which all people turning 20 participate in a formal ceremony to mark their age of majority and then according to Wikipedia go out drinking. In this ceremony, women wear the traditional furisode, a type of kimono pictured in the logo, and men either wear traditional Japanese or Western dress. This holiday was originally celebrated on January 15th starting in 1948, but then beginning in 2000 was moved to the second Monday of January in accordance with the Happy Monday System which put many national holidays on Mondays so that people could have three days weekends. As far as the logo is concerned I really like the color scheme that Google choose with many bright pastels that accent the celebration. Furthermore, the Google “oo” is very craftily made out of “20.” This logo’s bright colors and festive dress must inspire a bit of warmth and happiness in the current chill of winter.
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